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Our “Urban food theme” will encourage urban communities to grow vegetables both to consume themselves and to sell for income.

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We will work with city authorities to encourage them to make space available to allow city dwellers to have access to land for food gardens. This can be a range of different spaces including balconies, rooftops, kerb sides and even containers such as rubbish skips, enabling people to feed themselves, earn an income and improve their diets.

“The act of growing food has a pretty powerful way of changing people’s perspective on how they consume.”

By Lena Sin
The Province
July 26, 2012

Excerpt:

Travelling through Vancouver’s back alleys and narrow nooks, Lisa Giroday sees land that’s ripe for food production in places that most people would easily dismiss.

As the urban agriculture movement continues to take hold, Giroday wants to challenge the limits of where people think food can be grown.

Got a patch of grass in front of your townhouse? A strip of greenery straddling the sidewalk and road? An apartment building with a perimeter of hedges? All those “marginalized” spaces where people might think to do no more than plant a bush or some flowers can be used for edible gardening, she says.